Research Process
◆ Interview Preparation
With abundant secondary resources, our team members and teachers believed that we needed to have more first-hand information. Our teachers introduced us to the idea that first-hand resources can be collected through interviewing. By interviewing, we can seek to understand the Satoyama Initiative within a real-world context and gather more data to make our project more complete. Following the organization of the data, we briefly discussed potential interview questions with the aim of gaining a deeper comprehension of the Satoyama Initiative. In order to conduct a well-structured interview, we generated a list of questions through brainstorming. We subsequently sifted through these questions in order to identify those that could be answered using secondary resources. We then wondered if it was possible to interview one of the pioneers who introduced the Satoyama Initiative to Taiwan or an expert who had academic research on the Satoyama Initiative. After more preparation and help from Mr. Ciou, we wrote a letter to Professor Chien-Chih Chen, the chairman of Environmental Information Center, with the selected questions, hoping he would agree to our request. We were keen to visit him and have a great talk.